One more update for Ovi Contacts before the year turns
Thu, 2009-12-31 14:21Written by Kristian Luoma, Ovi Contacts
Hey all,
We felt that it was imperative to give still one more update for the Ovi Contacts during this year. Since our last update some issues were raised up in the Beta Labs forums that we were able to make fix. We thought you might enjoy an update, so here's one more for this year: a new and better release of Ovi Contacts for S60 3rd Edition FP2 and S60 5th Edition products.
To name a few from the long list of solved issues, here's a few worth mentioning:
- Send file was working only from chat view, not from the friend list before, but now it works
- Issues with Cyrilic and Scandinavian letters were fixed (you may have seen these as broken letters in the friend list)
- E-mail field in 'My profile' didn't accept "-" character is fixed, as reported by deekay304 in the forum
- Corrupted pics in personal and friends profile are fixed, as reported by lebb53 in the forum
Also something that was highly requested by many Spanish speaking friends of ours was that we'd put the download up to Beta Labs in a way that it contains all languages supported. Now it should.
In addition, we had time to do one more feature from the list you provided in return for your feature suggestion. Simple feature for combining all your sent messages in to a "single bubble" instead of many "subsequent bubbles" was suggested by alsiladka in the forum. Basically, it makes better use of the screen real-estate while you exchange a lot of messages. I think it looks much better. Here's how it appears:
You've all been very active in the Beta Labs Forum - commenting on things, suggesting new features and reporting bugs during this year. We are all very grateful for your input and hope to get the same support also during next year!
Thanks again!
Br, Kristian
P.s. note that the mobile download services (i.e. http://contacts.ovi.com/dist/a
Comments
so is cross compatibility top of the list for 2010?
Quite disappointing for FP1 users!!!
Nokia N82 (FW 31.0.016)
@shoeib, I feel same , having N82 and still no real successor, I am with FP1. But it seems to be dead.
At least for many Beta labs apps. :(
Suyog
Hey man, n82 is not dead yet, i've just updated my phone to the new firmware, v35, try it out.
Nokia Messenger (Ovi Contacts) ID: luisfelipeperez@ovi.com
It doesnt work on my 6210 Navigator, i unistalled the old version before install this but it doesnt work.
es decepcionante para los usuarios de FP1 demasiado malo que mediocres o ineficientes...... triste.....
For Nokia , the focus is always on the latest and greatest devices. Anyone with 6 months old phones are left in the dust. No point in being loyal to nokia. unless you are willing to spend $700 every 6 months, you don ot get much from the devices. Even then, they are bulky as hell and look and function like underdeveloped child in comparison to any off the shelf phones. Even with FP2, i feel left out. FP1 users can forget about it. You need 5th ed phone to get any attention here.
Nokia has to let go of their need to control which phones get what updates and develop a consistent framework to make new features readily available across all devices. They should not cripple phones at their will. Either way, this is the last nokia device I am giong to own. I will sucker into a driod or iphone and just get most features rather than be at the mercy of nokia.
All companies do this. It's called evolution. Beta Labs is also forward facing as it is BETA testing to provide improvements for the next generation and therefor needs to be even more forward facing.
The Betalabs is something, to the best of my knowledge, offered soley by Nokia and a similar interface is not avaiable to other platform users, like droid or iphone.
The main reason why older phones are not supported in certain newer BETA apps is that they may not have the hardware required to support them. The BETA teams are small groups of engineers developing concept apps on small budgets, and as such do not have the funds or manpower to develop across the board compatability. Their are intended to focus on the next big thing for the next big device.
mbrett
N97 RM-505 (Product Code: 0585262 (Vodafone UK)) FW 20.0.019
N95 8Gb (Product Code: 0558787 (UK)) FW 31.0.015
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http://www.n97geeks.com
As mbrett points out it's the nature of beta apps that many of them are limited to particular hardware or software. For beta trials to have the most impact, we need to get them out of the lab environment and into consumers' hands while the development is still ongoing. That speed often comes at the expense of compatibility during the beta phase. This is not a rule as such, but it does happen and I know it can be frustrating.
John - Community Facilitator @ Beta Labs
I've seen that you guys are making your best a developing this cool app, but...
Did you care to actually listen your users???? Which one among all of the suggestions was the top 1?
Any clue? IM Support was the leading one, and did you even cared about telling us what's going on in that area? I guess not.
Sorry, but this is more like an issue correted version rather than one with improvements and incorporation of new features.
This is exactly why Nokia is getting behind the competition, and that sucks because Nokia and Symbian have the strenght and potential to crush those competition fleas, but like everytime they give us half baked phones and software, oh, and allmost eternal state beta software that most of the time just throws into oblivion (Step Counter, Wellnes diary, etc)